Touring the World of Architecture: Week 23

Penn Station, Madison Square Park, a
competition to make our cities more fun and on top of it all - the
relaunch of the long missed favorite TV show Arrested Development,
now with architectural analysis. Have a great weekend,
everyone!

If you
see anything we shouldn't miss don't hesitate to tap us on the
shoulder: hello@arcpsace.com

We
sure hope so, but as seen already it will take a lot of effort to
restore Penn Station in New York to former glory. The Atlantic
Cities' Sarah Goodyear went to the unveiling offour design proposals for the future Penn
Station. Read her interestingarticleon the debate on
how to revitalize the busiest train station in North
America.

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Another News Story

Madison Square Park Conservancy's Mad. Sq. Art Launches
App

Wonder how 1.4
million feet of hand-knotted nautical rope work was installed in
New York's Madison Square Park? Catch the story on the new app
from Madison
Square Park Conservancyand Mad.Sq.Art. The app was launched
June 1 and is the first ever made from the Manhattan park letting
users in on the art work 'Red, Yellow and Blue' installed in the
park, the artist behind and a small info bite on the Madison Square
Park.

This Week's Competition

"Go play! It's your job""Which city is the most
fun? London, NYC, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Bangkok?" the people
from Building Trust International ask. Help make the world a little
more fun. Submit a plan or proposal to turn a neglected forgotten
part of your city into a playscape. It's up to you how you do it
and who it is for…

Video of the Week

Primitive Future

From the Lecture series: A New Innocence,
produced bythe Havard GSD youtube
channel, we have dug out the first of the four
inspiring speeches: the Sou Fujimoto's lecture on Primitive
Futurefrom 2011. In this lecture Sou Fujimoto
lets us in on his inspiration from landscape, different cultures
and fellow architects, on how he works with creativity and seeks to
innovate the function of architecture through inspiration from the
world around him. Enjoy - we sure did.

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A Bit of Friday Fun

Arrested Development is back, and o'boy, are we
happy!

The dysfunctional, venture capital seeking Bluth
family that didn't make it on Fox has been revitalized by Netflix's
on-demand streaming media. Isolated in their own project home
Michael Bluth, the only partly capable business head of the family,
strives to keep both family and company on the tracks - a task
greater than moving mountains.

Catch
the show onNetflixand follow the
Bluth's on Twitter - the story of a wealthy
family in 140 characters or less…

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Vacant This

Traveling the Netherlands? Then swing by the
Centraal Museum in Utretch and catch the installation 'Pretty
Vacant' by Amsterdam-based design and research
officeRietveld
Landscape.

Like a horror vacui the installation seeks to
fill the empty space of the medieval chapel by completely changing
the feel of the room. This blue window is based on the 'negative
spaces' of Rietveld Landscape's earlier installation Vacant NL,
which was the Dutch submission for the Venice Architecture Biennale
in 2010.